Analysis of Can't Get to Sleep
This sleep terror of mine
I could kill the bitch
It is as unwieldy
as this chicken
being butchered
Without a head, up she flies
to blindly drop on my just
sheets-freed braincase
and there she starts to irritate
The headstrong wretch
sprinkles my skull with her late feathers
snitches my peace of mind and
doesn’t even want it for itself
So I spastically potter about for hours
in these bales of duvets
with my body muttering
till my blood boils annoyed
Eyes pinched, I then finally
succeed to bring down
the spooky token
But my poor feathered skeleton,
each morning, seems to be broken
| Scheme | XABCX DXDX AEXX EDXX BXC CC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111011 11101 111010 1110 1010 0101111 1101111 111 0111110 011 101110110 111110 11011101 1111001110 01111 1110100 111101 1111100 01111 01010 11110100 11011110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 595 |
| Words | 114 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4, 4, 3, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 22 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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